Aviva Plc increased Applied Matls Inc (AMAT) stake by 1.7% reported in 2017Q3 SEC filing. Aviva Plc acquired 11,500 shares as Applied Matls Inc (AMAT)’s stock rose 23.58%. The Aviva Plc holds 688,819 shares with $35.89M value, up from 677,319 last quarter. Applied Matls Inc now has $58.85B valuation. The stock increased 3.63% or $1.96 during the last trading session, reaching $55.95. About 16.13M shares traded or 19.00% up from the average. Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT) has risen 121.40% since February 16, 2017 and is uptrending. It has outperformed by 104.70% the S&P500.

Among 5 analysts covering Liquidity Services (NASDAQ:LQDT), 1 have Buy rating, 1 Sell and 3 Hold. Therefore 20% are positive. Liquidity Services had 11 analyst reports since November 20, 2015 according to SRatingsIntel. The stock has “Hold” rating by Robert W. Baird on Sunday, October 15. The firm has “Sector Perform” rating given on Friday, February 5 by RBC Capital Markets. The stock has “Hold” rating by Benchmark on Friday, May 6. The stock has “Buy” rating by Barrington on Thursday, February 1. As per Friday, November 20, the company rating was maintained by Benchmark. The stock of Liquidity Services, Inc. (NASDAQ:LQDT) has “Hold” rating given on Thursday, February 1 by Robert W. Baird. The stock has “Sector Perform” rating by RBC Capital Markets on Friday, November 20.

Since October 2, 2017, it had 0 insider buys, and 2 selling transactions for $144,838 activity. Another trade for 15,270 shares valued at $88,566 was sold by Rallo James M. 9,702 Liquidity Services, Inc. (NASDAQ:LQDT) shares with value of $56,272 were sold by Gravley Roger.

Since August 23, 2017, it had 0 insider buys, and 5 insider sales for $12.03 million activity. Forrest Stephen R had sold 4,000 shares worth $214,680 on Wednesday, January 3. Salehpour Ali had sold 125,125 shares worth $6.44M. The insider Karsner Alexander sold 22,762 shares worth $1.00 million. 30,000 shares valued at $1.54 million were sold by Larkins Thomas F on Thursday, October 5. Shares for $2.83 million were sold by Nalamasu Omkaram on Tuesday, January 2.